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Old 10-11-2006, 12:45 PM   #1  
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Okay my bookclub is meeting this Friday to discuss the book we just read, The Lovely Bones. So my question is what is a good book for our next read? Anyone have suggestions? We are open to anything.
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Old 10-11-2006, 12:57 PM   #2  
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Oh I love both of Wally Lamb's books: She Comes Undone and I Know This Much Is True!!!!! They are 2 of the best books I've read in my life.
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Old 10-11-2006, 01:07 PM   #3  
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Does it have to be a fiction? There are some interesting biographies and autobiographies out there ... I really like Diane Arbus: A Biography by Patricia Bosworth.
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Old 10-11-2006, 01:37 PM   #4  
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Oh my gosh Dollypie, i am reading THE BEST book right now. It is called, Conversations with the Fat Girl. It is SO good. It is one of those that you wish would never end. It is by Liza Palmer. Look into it at barnesandnoble.com or something and you can read an except. I highly recommend it. It is so funny to read the struggles this "fat girl" has...too funny.

BTW, i read the Lovely Bones about a year ago and i enjoyed it. Written from such a very different perspective.
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Old 10-11-2006, 01:41 PM   #5  
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My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult is amazing!
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Old 10-11-2006, 03:08 PM   #6  
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Cookiemonster: We have already read My Sister's Keeper and it was a fabulous book. I also just finished her book Vanishing Acts and it is really good too.

phantasic: We haven't ventured into nonfiction, but I will bring it up.
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Old 10-11-2006, 04:26 PM   #7  
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I want to be in a book club...how do you do that?
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Old 10-11-2006, 05:12 PM   #8  
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One of my favorite novels is Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres. (No, I haven't seen the Nicholas cage movie, and I refuse to -- the book is too beautiful and I hear the movie is too awful.) I threw it across the room at the end of it -- any novel that can make you do that has to be special

A Secret History by Donna Tartt is a fun read....

The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant is another awesome one.
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Old 10-11-2006, 08:28 PM   #9  
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How about any of the Gregory... Gah I can't remember his last name. He wrote Wicked and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, both books I've read and find very good!
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Old 10-11-2006, 08:35 PM   #10  
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This summer I picked up a copy of "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls and it was amazing. Several of my friends also read it last summer and loved it. I would definetly recommend it to anyone looking for a good book to read.
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Old 10-11-2006, 09:39 PM   #11  
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I just finished, The Secret Life of Bees. It is a bestseller and one of the best I've read in a while. Just beautifully written. I also second Wally Lamb. She's Come Undone was actually Oprah's first book club selection. I'm about to start The Time Traveler's Wife and am looking foward to it!

Oh also, Fannie Flagg is a really fun author- she wrote Fried Green Tomatos, but my favorite of hers is Daisy Fay and The Miracle Man (my very favorite book, actually).
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Old 10-11-2006, 09:44 PM   #12  
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i just finished The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Wienberger. A record of 24 hours from start to finish - I was starved for literature! It is my first book in over 18 months. I tend to recycle books over and over and become a creature of habit so finding new authors is a big step for me.

I am off to buy a new one today and wanted to get Memoirs of a Geisha but might go for A Fortunate Life by AB Facey or The Time Travellers Wife. I have heard good stuff about all of them.

I haven't read an Australian book since Jessica by Bryce Courtenay so I think AB Facey might be on the cards.

Oh heck - now I am confused I want all of them.

I would love to be in a book club
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Old 10-11-2006, 09:58 PM   #13  
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A Secret History by Donna Tartt is a fun read....
It is! Did you know that she started writing that book in college and was classmates with Brett Easton Ellis?

The Wally Lamb books are also great, but are tres' long.
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I knew she was like, 17 when she started it.... Made me feel totally inadequate (What? You're 19 and don't have a bestselling novel yet? Pshaw.) It's a very well-crafted book, too, not like it's just rambly unshaped novice stuff. I got it as airport/airplane fodder and just ate it up

Not sure who Brett Easton Ellis is
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Old 10-12-2006, 04:18 AM   #15  
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How about A Million Little Pieces by James Frey?

I didn't think Conversations With a Fat Girl was all that good. I prefered Good In Bed as a fat-girl perspective book.
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